Submitted
by Myrna
Blumberg
Application to the Court of
Jeremiah Jr Newbery for
Administration, dated September 26, 1825
To the Surrogate of the County of Washington + The Petition of Jeremiah
Newberry of the Town of Greenwich
in the County of Washington & State of New York.
Respectfully Herewith ---
That your Petitioner is a son and next of kin of Jeremiah Newberry late
of the Town of Greenwich in said County deceased - That the said Jeremiah
Newberry died in the town of Greenwich in said County on or about the 6th day
of September AD. 1825 --- That at or immediately preceding the time of his
death he was an Inhabitant of said County of Washington. That the said deceased
has left no last will and testament as far as your petitioner has been able to
discover or has heard that in the opinion of your petitioner it is necessary
that administration of the Estate of the said deceased should be granted to
some discreet Person -- And your petitioner further shows that all the Good,
chattels and credits of the said deceased do not exceed in value the sum of
Eighty two Dollars ---- Your Petitioner therefore prays that he Jeremiah
Newberry may be appointed administrator of the Goods chattles
& Credits of the said deceased and will ever pray
Dated Sept 26th, 1825 Jeremiah Newberry
County of Washington } Jeremiah Newberry being Surrogate office duly sworn deposeth & saith that the
material facts in the preceding petition are true to the best of his knowledge
information and belief.
Sworn this 26th day of Sept.
A.D. 1825 before me }Jeremiah Newberry
Saml Standish Jr
Surrogate
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Administration papers of Jeremiah Newberry & Hosea Jakway,
dated September
26, 1825
Know all men by these presents, that we [Jeremiah Newberry Hosea Jakway] are held and firmly bound unto the People of the
State of New York, in the sum of [One Hundred Sixty] dollars current money of
the said state, to be paid to the said people. To which payment well and
truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us our
and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, and every of them jointly
and severally firmly by these presents----Sealed with our seals, and dated the
[twenty sixth] day of [September] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty [five].
The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden [Jeremiah
Newberry] administrat[or] of all and singular the
goods, chattels and credits of [Jeremiah Newberry] late of the town of
[Greenwich] deceased, do make or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory
of all and singular good, chattels and credits of the said deceased, which have
or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of [Jeremiah Newberry] or
into the hands or possession of any other person or persons for the said
[Jeremiah Newberry] and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited
into the office of the Surrogate of the county of Washington, at or before the
expiration of six callendar months from the date of
the above written obligation: And the same goods, chattels and credits, and all
other goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, which at any time after
shall come into the hands or possession of the said [Jeremiah Newberry] or into
the hands or possession of any other person or persons for the said {Jeremiah},
do well and truly administer according to law. And further, when thereunto
lawfully required, do make or cause to be made a just and true account of
administration; and if it shall hereafter appear that any
last will or testament was made by the said deceased, and the executor or
executors therein named or any other person or persons do exhibit the same, and
request to have it allowed and approved, then if the said [Jeremiah Newberry]
being thereunto required, do render and deliver the letters of administration
granted on the estate of
the said deceased to the office from which they were issued, then this
obligation to be void and of no effect, or else to remain in full force and
virtue.
Sealed and delivered
in presence
of } Jeremiah Newbery
Saml Standish
jr Hosea Jakway
Roswell Crossfield
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Affidavit of John Salisbury & David Remington dated September 12, 1825
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Washington County
I, John Salisbury & I , David Remington Do Solemnly Swear in the Presence
of All Mighty God that I will well and
faithfully inventory the Personal Property of Jeremiah Newbery
Deceased according to the best of my knowledge
and abilaty.
Sworn to and Subscribed
John
Salisbury*********************************************************************************
before me this 12th Day
David Remington
September 1825
Justus CH _ast
Justus of the Peace
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Inventory of the Estate of Jeremiah Newberry dated September 16, 1825
An Inventory mad and
compiled $ / C
September the six-teenth, Eighteen-Hundred and
twenty-five of the Personal Property of Jeremiah Newberry, deceased of the town
of Greenwich, and County of Washington, State of New York. Viz
$ / cts
one straight body Coat 2 /
one vest / 75
one loose Coat 1 / 50
two shirts 1 /
one pair of striped pantaloons / 37
three pair of old tow trousers / 37
one pair of woolen pantaloons / 75
one pair of woollen socks / 18
one pair of woolen stockings / 18
one pair of yarn mittens / 12
one pair of yarn Do / 25
one pair of old shoes / 12
three pounds of tobacco / 80
half a yard of worsted cloth / 6
one cake of soap / 3
one tobacco box / 3
one pocket book / 6
one bunch of thread / 9
seven needles / 3
half a yard of thin cloth / 12
nine buttons / 3
Cash 19 / 82
one note against John Evans 4 / 18
Pension due from the United States September the fourth Eighteen-hundred and
twenty-five 48 /
John
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} Apprisors
David Remington